Thanksgiving? Huh?

Ok, granted I was nearly delusional during my last post. It was, after all, my first time up and about after nearly a week home sick. But that's no excuse to have had no idea whatsoever that it was Thanksgiving! *sigh*

Having returned home (first surviving choir practice; they had to give me a chair since I nearly keeled over but I managed to avoid both swoons and coughing fits) I felt like something warm and festive and something other than tea (since I'd been drinking tea nonstop for days of course). Therefore I went in the kitchen to see what might be done and ended up making up a new mulling recipe.

Mulled Cranberry Juice
per person add
1 cup cranberry juice
2 tspn honey
1 chai teabag
pinch of "pie spice" (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, etc.)
Heat to just below boiling allowing to stew about 5 min. Remove teabags and serve. Yum.

It came out a lot like the medieval recipe for hot spiced pomegranate juice we tried out (the hard way, crushing all those pomegranate seeds!) at Red House a couple years ago. Like I said, yum. It's occurred to me that that recipe would be much easier to cheat with these days now that pomegranate juice is in vogue.

Anyway, since cranberries are a traditional part of Thanksgiving, that was my one (albeit accidental) nod to the holiday. I had already bought the makings of Pumpkin Pie, though, so I may have to make it for my birthday now. And turkey and the rest of it is all traditional for Christmas dinner hereabouts. So I'll just have all the elements strung out. Of course, I missed the most important part: the friends and family gathered 'round. But, just think, if you'd been around me I would have given you this blasted flu! So, I was thinking of y'all the next day even if I was too addle-brained to be thinking of you the day-of.